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Assange extradition claims fantasy: Carr

Claims the Swedish prosecution against Julian Assange is part of a conspiracy to have him extradited to the United States is sheer fantasy, and the Wikileaks founder would be safer in Sweden than the UK, Foreign Minister Bob Carr says.

Senator Carr said it would be harder to extradite Assange from Sweden than the UK, because "the Swedes say it is our policy ... that we never extradite someone on a matter to related to military or intelligence".

"They just don't do it," he told ABC's Q&A program.

Assange has been holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London for the past eight months as part of his bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where authorities want to question him over sexual assault allegations.

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Assange says he fears the US will seek to extradite him from Sweden to face charges relating to WikiLeaks' release of thousands of classified US documents.

"To suggest that the Swedes are after him as a CIA conspiracy to get him to Stockholm and allowing him to be bundled off to Langley, Virginia is sheer fantasy," Senator Carr said on Monday night.

"If the Swedes had him in Stockholm it would be even more harder for the US to extradite, if that's what they want to do, than he's been for the last two years in the United Kingdom."

US ambassador to Australia, Jeff Bleich, said claims the US wanted to extradite Assange from Sweden were "ludicrous".

"Julian Assange was in London living freely for two years, so if the United States had wanted to extradite him from England they could have done so," ambassador Bleich said.

"We have a more robust extradition treaty with the UK than we have with Sweden.

"There is no reason to come up with some convoluted false charge by two women who claim that he slept with them and forced himself on them without a condom."